About Me
Seasoned Senior Business Analyst with extensive transformation experience across energy trading, finance, public sector, housing, education and digital programmes. Strong track record working independently with business …
Seasoned Senior Business Analyst with extensive transformation experience across energy trading, finance, public sector, housing, education and digital programmes. Strong track record working independently with business process owners, SMEs and senior stakeholders to map current-state processes, identify gaps and controls, and shape target operating model change. Current Shell experience includes business process mapping and analysis for the ADA Programme, supporting the ETRM transition from Aligne to Endur. Skilled at establishing credibility quickly, facilitating workshops, translating operational detail into clear process artefacts, and producing requirements, user stories, acceptance criteria, RAID inputs and UAT evidence for complex change programmes.
Experience
Business Analyst
Business Analyst across major Shell transformation initiatives, including the ADA Programme and DSX commodities platform.
Work covers end-to-end trade lifecycle process mapping, ETRM change, Agile delivery, Jira backlog management, UAT and release readiness across global stakeholder groups.
Supported process mapping and analysis for the transition of ETRM capabilities from Aligne to Endur, documenting end-to-end trade lifecycle processes and identifying operational, system, data and control impacts across front office, middle office, back office and finance.
Created live process maps aligned to Shell standards, capturing activities, systems, controls, hand-offs, exceptions, pain points, dependencies and call-out activities for stakeholder review and sign-off.
Produced process narratives and analysis outputs to help stakeholders compare AS-IS operations with proposed TO-BE changes and prepare for target operating model decisions.
Mapped end-to-end commodity deal flows across Gas, Power and EPT, including front office, middle office, back office and finance touchpoints such as trade capture, confirmations, scheduling, settlement, invoicing, accounting and reporting.
Elicited, validated and documented requirements with Product Owners, SMEs, architecture, development, testing, Site Reliability/Operations and business teams across multiple locations.
Produced and managed capabilities, epics, user stories, defects, acceptance criteria and E2E test items on Jira Kanban boards; supported prioritisation with Product Managers and delivery teams.
Coordinated UAT in Dev and UAT environments, captured evidence, managed defects, supported regression testing and helped prepare go/no-go decisions for releases.
Supported DSX deployments for commodities platform features covering Oil/Crude, Biofuels, LNG, Sulphur and Bitumen; collaborated with users and teams in Bangalore, Houston, Perth and Porto.
Prepared risk assessments and maintained RAID inputs for assigned epics, highlighting dependencies, delivery blockers and mitigations to project leadership.
Supported the deployment of WalkMe guidance to improve user adoption and training for traders on commodities platform functionality.
Prepared options analysis for new solution requirements and supported lift-and-shift activity across line-of-business application landscapes.
Completed process mapping of end-to-end commodities trade dealing for front office, middle office, back office and finance processes.
Supported transformation of Bitumen and Sulphur capabilities into the Trading & Supply landscape.
Helped restart and deliver Phases 1-3 of Dated Brent Daily after a long hold period, meeting assigned Jira delivery deadlines.
Rapidly built knowledge of Shell commodity product templates, DSX functionality and ETRM solution landscape including Endur and Aligne.
Business Analyst
Business Analyst on a $5m solar energy solutions and storage programme for commercial and domestic customers.
Built collaborative relationships with more than 113 sponsors, stakeholders, SMEs and users; elicited and validated requirements with more than 40 stakeholders including commercial and government bodies.
Worked with the Product Manager to translate product vision into user stories, acceptance criteria and deployable app feature enhancements.
Analysed current-state processes and designed future-state operating processes supported by data, market research and customer usage requirements.
Created BRDs, options papers, business cases, cost-benefit analysis, impact assessments and feasibility documents.
Developed test scripts and coordinated UAT for over 200 users; captured issues and supported release readiness.
Produced Visio process maps for KWh usage, solar panel implementation and storage unit scaling for commercial and domestic users.
Analysed R2R, P2P and S2P strategies, workflows and operational efficiencies; produced data visualisations for growth and seasonal variation trends.
Finance Business Analyst
Finance BA on a multi-million-pound e-commerce and digital transformation programme involving landing page modernisation, CRM-NAV interface work, SIT/UAT and collaboration tool implementation.
Translated business requirements into detailed functional and non-functional requirements across finance, web, apps, CRM, ERP and ESB workstreams.
Built relationships with over 120 sponsors, stakeholders, SMEs and users; elicited and validated requirements from over 80 stakeholders.
Prepared AS-IS and TO-BE process maps, interface maps and procurement recommendations; delivered tender packs including instructions, pricing schedules and evaluation requirements.
Facilitated sprint planning, retrospectives, demos and daily stand-ups; maintained backlog with the Product Owner and produced release notes for senior stakeholders and users.
Managed RAID logs, SIT/UAT planning, test scripts and use case scenarios in VSTS.
Finance Business Analyst
Finance BA on a £2.7m Agile transformation programme including Sun Systems upgrade, ERP/ESB reconnaissance, SharePoint and collaboration tools.
Elicited requirements from over 80 stakeholders and collaborated with more than 120 sponsors, SMEs and users across finance and operations.
Produced BRDs, options papers, business cases, impact analyses, feasibility documents, process maps and data migration requirements.
Supported ERP deployment, Oracle migration, EDI file layout, purchase order/invoice transaction flows and data warehouse reporting using ETL concepts.
Covered KYC/CDD, screening, transaction management, taxation, P2P and S2P requirements; managed UAT for over 200 users and maintained risk registers.
Business Analyst
Business Analyst on a £375k travel booking web and mobile app project with payment capability and transformation impact analysis.
Engaged stakeholders at all levels, analysed complex processes and recommended improvement opportunities.
Translated business requirements into functional and non-functional requirements; managed RAID and weekly project reporting.
Developed wireframes and prototypes for web/app journeys; supported UAT, data extraction, reporting and P2P evaluation.
Business Analyst
Business Analyst on a £4.5m fixed assets register upgrade and data migration from multiple legacy systems to Oracle E-Business Suite.
Documented functional and non-functional requirements, status reports, AS-IS processes and TO-BE processes aligned to the target operating model.
Mapped business processes in Visio, facilitated workshops with business and IT teams, and managed stakeholders across onshore/offshore locations.
Supported fixed asset profiling, register recording, data cleansing, migration and reporting; helped reduce process lag time by 15% to 21%.
Finance Business Analyst
Finance BA on a finance transformation programme focused on reducing month-end, quarter-end and year-end reporting lead times.
Gathered statutory and regulatory reporting requirements through workshops with Finance SMEs.
Supported TOM design, operational impact assessment, functional specifications, test scenarios, scripts, client reporting and global stakeholder management.
Business Finance Analyst
Business Finance Analyst on an efficiency and quality improvement programme.
Developed process maps and detailed procedures to implement efficiency targets; gathered, analysed and documented requirements.
Prepared AS-IS and TO-BE process models, cost-benefit analysis, reconciliations, forecasts, trend reports, training guides and stakeholder presentations.
Business Finance Analyst
Supported internal customer service improvement, feedback/complaints processes and migration of clinical coding data to a new Trust database.
Business / Finance Analyst
Supported the creation of a customised purchase ordering system using the college intranet.